Eli Rosenblatt
By Eli Rosenblatt
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Culture Glimpsing the World of Holocaust Memoir
What exactly is “personal history”? Is it a cousin of political history, cultural history or revisionist history — an account steeped in perspective before objective truth — or is it just a fancy term for “memoir”? With a spate of memoirs-turned-fiction rattling book stalls, the Holocaust chronicles, published this year, chosen for review this week…
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Culture Reassembling the Balkan Puzzle
Monastir Without Jews: Recollections of a Jewish Partisan in Macedonia By Jamila Andjela Kolomonos Edited by Robert Bedford Translated by Isaac Nehama and Brian Berman The Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 160 pages, $18.95. In the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, the cityscapes are dotted with evidence of the wanderers, invaders…
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Culture French-Bred
In the summer of 2005, the suburbs of Paris went up in flames. Television screens and newspapers were filled with images of frustrated Arab and African youths, most often the unemployed children or grandchildren of immigrants, burning and slashing the already dour infrastructure around them. It was a sight that many observers thought mirrored the…
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Culture Epic Encyclopedia Turns a Page in Study of Jewish Eastern Europe
What is Jewish Eastern Europe? A geographical space, or a frame of mind? The eternal homeland of Ashkenazic Jewry, or simply its birthplace? A field of academic inquiry, or just a touchstone for nostalgia? For the editors of the comprehensive new YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, capturing di alter heym — the Old…
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Culture Picturing Today’s Conversos
In northern New Mexico’s Sandoval County, there is a tombstone of a World War II veteran in a cemetery nestled in the desert brush. The name of the man, who was born in 1921 and died in 1980, is Adonay P. Gutierrez, and it is engraved on the stone below a cross. Nine different Native…
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Israel News Israeli Artist Branches Out in London
Israeli artist Zadok Ben-David has been approved by the Westminster City Council to display his “Four Seasons” sculpture in London, at Hanover Square. The sculpture depicts four metal trees and is sponsored by Sotheby’s of London. It comes on the heels of the artist’s similar installation on the grounds of the Chatsworth House, the ancestral…
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Culture Picturing the ‘Problem From Hell’
When you look at a photograph that depicts an act of violence — or, in the case of Lane H. Montgomery’s new photography book, “Never Again, Again, Again” (Ruder Finn), an act of genocide — you might assume that the photographer took a substantial amount of time to frame, say, a heap of murdered Tutsis…
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Israel News Ben Stein’s Case for Intelligent Design
It may seem a little overzealous to pick a fight with Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who changed how humans understand their origins with his 1859 book “The Origin of Species,” but for lawyer, actor and professor Ben Stein (of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Wonder Years” fame), Darwin is exactly the sort of…
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Theater They helped elect Los Angeles’ first Black mayor; but to him, they were just Bob and Shirley
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